The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-25 00:00:00

.mr Runah wa; a third for i7/0 I S-po . l2llderS and t -.A 0 howitzers. The whole was ready on the I . l..:l.of"FOruary, and opened at day-light the follow itt =a - wog, and so hem)y and so destrutlive was we fire; that the enemy could not iTiew• a man, aid only fired it the intervals whilst-our guns were cooling. By sun-set two of their guns were dismounted, and three of the gates; with their defences, laid in ruins; immense rnssaeS•of -stone . and masonry were brought down. Nest morning the batteries played on the upper gate and defences with . powerful effea, and at. noonthe evemy displayed a white flag. At four they eva cuated the fort, , and at five we occupied it. Thu.Boondelahs; from the late breach, were ap prehensive that we would storm ()Oahe night of the i 3th, but the breach required two days more batter-, • ing to render it more practicable iro,m .the lower hastion, breached to the upper gate, the .measure ratut was 80 yards, descending an angleof 75 de •grees. Had the enemy defended the breach as-gal lanily as they fought at Regowlie, a great effusion of blood must inevitably have taken place, as almost every part within was defensible, but on losing the brave Ai udeapersaud, the uncle of Lu tch mtin Low ab; Regowlie, with 80 men killed, .2a sirdars, and 185 vt . the finest soldiers wounded; the spirit of Lutcll - was broken,.and his people were appalled. In tact Adjy Glair was. taken on-the fortified hill of Regowlie; a more obstinate defence_than was there made I never witnessed, Jn the fort are three large reservoirs, cut into,the slid ;tick, of very finefresh water, and tile ruins of three of the most magnificent Hindoo Temples I ever beheld : the. whole of.the stones composing the buildings are laid without cement, but most nicely fitted to rich other, and the sculpture, both..inside and without, is of chaste design and exquisite work manThip. The time of building „these temples is lost in antiquity ; from appearance;, ,th,ey - must have'. been eret.-.ted long before the fort ; the jfort itself was built by an ancient Rajah, named Aiy Copaul, and the tertress was called after him Ay. Ghur, or the in - vincible fortress. In what period Ajy Gopaul fl• unshed is also unknown, for I 'could not learn ~ vhether there are any records respecting him ; but he is represented-to have reigned ages ago, and is said to have been a great magician: In one of 'the large temples, and on the outside of the other, are two large tablesof stone, covered with inscriptions, but these are so et:aced, , that it could not be ascertained in what language they were writ ten, or rather Indeed raised on the face of the stone. I cuuid not procure a man who Crotild,cOpy them.— After a siege of ten Mouths, Aleeßehander took Ajy Ghur by famine; close tel Ihe town he and 6 tirninat flein,uder gave the Boonde a s,a great de feat, and slew their Chief, Lui ArjUn Sing, a!atnous warrior, Who is the theme of their national songs.-- Shorn Share • Biliatader confined hiS cousin Gunnee . :.!i!ati( 4, .r in this tort ; and after we had defeated 1.4 m. a. Ropsah,o9 the 12th of Getober,.fBo3, he 'eraered t tie IVlahratta Killedar to IN . IsCon, his prisoner. . Killedar sold the fort to Lotelinann Dowah fnr 13,000 rupees; but it is s'uspet - ted, as Lutchmun had, possession of a most valuable diamond necklace that had oeleiiged to Gunneeßehauder, that after the ..I.alarattas marched out lie attacked their property, and co a l: not the rakVace alone, but despoiled the .Malliit las of all they had. On tae nort4.stce of. the mountain, and within ces . 11:e de fen of the lowest. side of the,gates, of which :here. I.vt.qe ti%e, issues Irorn a . sFing a.fihestream of v, a ,tb source, as the..l3eraggies inaintii-in, of the . .Tenina mid the Ganges ; but this honour is keenly di-; utned h the BL:ral4gies . of a neighbourit ,, . - 2; stupend ,,,,s 1..11, called Deo Gong. .:,-. ; lly . Gliur is about five 31:;ics from -the loot of the Pannah Ghauts, and 14 Vii C;ailenger r . -; whole of the khantsoind almost every hill in this clu.;itel,is a table Izind, and thecioPßlrY is, per -Iw,p's, the sirongest in the viorid.„-foc.4yery hill is a .and lion their great 4i; hLatO'steepness, r.-Ami difficult to be carried. Ti u face, of the coun- Ity vie,ents a heavy close jungle, -4142.iti1l is rich and bearing a ilumbtr of teak trees, which appear : to be of.tbe bast aid lOnd—they are Of no great height, ,except sbwe in the fort, which are of the ,:"Le 01 4, tpinie.rate mowrah, or mango lice,. • • MAILS. r. u-1. Lisbon, r tamaica. i Dublin, a Warerfo:d. Di; 3 6Grtenburgn.. t 4Varertord. • PRICE STOCK • THIS DAY AT Twrcvs:oictocn. - - - - - -- .- 68} Consols - - THE SU K. SOLIII.I Quit DIGIERZ YALit;NI sIUDZATI L 0 ND ON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER ( 2 e 5, 1809. • One of our contemporaries, in noticing the inten on.of strengthening the Administration, alluded to cur Paper of Saturday, wishes to turn our para :.:apb into an acknowledgement, on our pa't, of imbecility in the Cabinet of the Duke of PORT- I,AN • We.are still of opinion (and we ,believe that we 7.-are the country with us); that the Government, it Was lately constituted, wasPerfeelly competent, as a whole, although some minute alterations might be deemed necessary. Bat the Ciibinet which is ..;uw to receive, as we trust, an accession of strength, • s a.Cabit.et frcni, which a portion (,f the Charatier ari d i a l c ot.wllich composed. it, has lately been drawn._ 1 his secession appears-to afford rn oppor . tnnity.a iting in his Majesty's service . some of 65e ivho have lately been, most 'UnfortunatelY for he country, opposed to Bach other, • . We have eard of the late resignations with deep and sincere regret ; 'On the p;trticutar' merits of the individuals whose. services ',ye, have now lost, we shill hereafter dilate, but. we cannot ,pss,,by. _this oppor timity of expressing the sentiments of true repel which, in commonn-A ith the public, we have nt , vcr ceased to entertain for the integrity, talent, and aeliVity of which a concurrence of circurnstinceS has deprived the Administration. But much as we lament that these circumstances should have occurred, we have pleasure in announc ing the which have been adopted for re placing to his MAXESTY'S Councils the 'qualifications thUs - Withdrawn. We understand that messages • were on Saturday dispatched to Lords GREY and GRENVILLE, calling for their advice and assistance in the formation of an Administration, in conjunc tion with the remaining Members of -the present Cabinet, and . we trust that the result will be the establishment of a strong and united Government, competent to resist the efforts of our Domestic and Foreign enemies. THE wisdoM of the,determination to retain, for 1 the present, a respectable force in Portugal, has been questioned in a Morning Paper, upon grounds which we do not-distinaly undLrstand. • It is said that our troops ought riot to remain in the Peninsula unless they are intended to .a' offensively, and that the present is the season .for striking one blow more. Nov,r Lord WELLINGTON is certainly not left in Portuotil kith instructions forbidding offensive 0 ope rations, and measures have been taken for enabling him,, if it be . possible to strike another blow, to strike it with effect. Whether at this precise mo.- ment the blow ought to be attempted—or in other words, whether the British army ought now to ad vance against either of the corps of France, we do consider Lord WBLLINGTON ~as a tolerably compe , tent judge ; and the simple question now in dispute iS, whether there be or be not a sutiieient'probabi lity of such an advance becoming feasible, as to, ren der politic the resolution to reinforc, bis Lordship's army, But it is said that we cannot maintain Portu gal against BuotgAe4nl - 4, after the French force in Spain shall have been increased to the amount oX Which a Peace in Germany will admit. Of this we are perfeetly aware, but unfit that capability of in ' crease shall have been acquired, why not protea our friends the- Portuguese ? Granting the affairs of Spain to be utterly hopeless, and the possibility of 13130NAPARTE'S being retained in Germany, to be utterly destroyed (neither of which assumptions, we • conceive, oughtto be aded apon), is not every week during which Portugal is retained as an Ally, ad vantageous to bur cause, and honourable to our cha, racier ? . . When the state of affairs in Germany shall enable France to dire& her whole fOrce against the Penin sula of Spain and 4, F luvual, the question will take a different aspeEt, and the retention of British troops in the Peninsula, if a defensible measure, tbust be defended upon very different grounds. Taut at this present moment we conceive that the recall of ou r troops would be an a 0; in regard to Spaip, of un timely despair, and, in regard to Portugal, of,tm merited desertion of a friend. Private .LetterS, froM Walcheren state the si4- ness amongst the • troops as gradually decreasing , and nO:doubt is entertained but the place is tenable at a'.l seasons, should it be determined to keep pos session thereof i for which purpose, however, a large naval farce will be necessary. The only troops in South Beveland ate . Dutch, which are 'continually annoyed'and preventedihrowi'n up - ..batteries' by the' British gun-boats laying at that side of Walelteren, while the frigates, &c. at the Viushing;side are-suf ficient to check theenemy in Cadsand.•!.. This morning Mr. SHAW, one of his Majesty's Messengers, arrived at dip Secretary of State's' oilice, in Downing-street, with Dispatches ftom The stibstance of the Dispatches toad not transpired wheti this Paper was put to press. • -"- Last night, Portuguese Papers to the 'l3th -inst, arrived, from which we have made. some extfadts. The Intelligence they contain is of a very favourable nature, but it is not given in an, Official Shape. Captain Moßßts,, •Aid-de-Camp to Lieutenant- General Sir JOHN CRADOCK, arrived at seven o'clock on Saturday morning at Mr. CANNING'S house in Bruton-street, with dispatches "from the Marquis WELLESLEY. Captain NORRIS proceeded from Bruton-street to Gloucester-Lodge ; and in the even ing Mr. CANNING sent . a Messenger with the. dis patches to his MAsesTy at Windsor. General ER - SKINE and his Aid-de-Camp, Ciptain . MACDONALD, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday trom •Lisbon, in the Noupareil packet. The packet had a - remarkably quick passage hortne; on the 17th she fell in with the Alin and schooner, from 'Li verpool to Lisbon, near the Rock of Lisbon, and on the:2lst. she fell in with the Ann schooner, from Portsmouth, bound to Cadiz, near Cape Finisterre, -all well. We have heard that the .dispatchei by the Fir - ginla annouce that several officers on the Madras es tablishment are to be sent home, for circulating a remonstrance among the officers of the army against 'the a& of Governthent, in removing the late Com mander in, Chief from .the service. The names mentioned in . the General Ortier of the 6th of May are Colonel Saint Leger, Majors Boles and de Mor gan, and Captains Marshall and Grant. On Friday the Prince of WALES arrived from Wey mouth, and had an audience with the Krs-G.. NAVAL NEWS. _O4 Ffern the LONDON GAZETTE, &pt. 23, 1809. Admiralty-Office, Copy of a Letter from Captain M'Kinley, of his Majesty's, Ship the Lively, to Vice-Adrniral Campbell, dated off Beachy Bead, the tBth inst. and transmitted by the latter to the lion. Wm. Wellesley Pole. -SI R, At doylight this morning a lugger was discovered in the South-East, and his Majesty's ship Iris East, and Plovet S. S. W. and the three ships joined in the chace by the great exertions of that indefati gable Officer Captain Brown of - the Plover, he got alongside of her at 7 o'clock, when she struck., and proved to he the new French lugger privateer Aurore, of sixteen guns, commanded by M. 'l3rigan - da; and planned with sixty-nine men, (three of whonl are wounded), from Frecamp yesterday, and had made PO capture. • I have the honour to be, Bce. (Signed) GEORGE IVIIKINLEY. PLYBIOUTti, 5x1.1...°9.—At lived the French brig l'Artemise, from Bourdeaux, laden with brandy and wine, bound tp St. Maloes, captured by the Hero privateer, belonging to Guernsey ; the latter - "fell in , with, on the 15th instant, a convoy consisting of aboUt 00 sail, ander convoy of a large armed brig, and a lugger privateer, off the Isle of I)eux ; the .whole of, them were pursuing the same voyage as .the Artemise. About 20 sail,were brigs,, of about 150 tons burthen, laden with brandy and wine; the rest Witte chasse marees and schooners. The Hero succeeded in driving ashore.and destroying about six of the latter, which the convoy paid no attention to; the others made their escape. Last night, during a gale which blew_ from the southward, the brig HlNDmAttsii, parted from her cables, and drove on the rocks in Mill Bay. Soon after striking, it was found necessary to cut . away her masts,,' but which proved to 'be of tittle etfed, as ,he fell on her beam ends, and soon filled. she is Very much. bulged, and will, in all probability, go to pieces.—Crew saved. Arrived.the iimazwa.frigate, Capt. PARKER, from the coast of France; and the Sidbury,,l4,Acit.49N front Dartmouth, for Newfoundland, • :3 Mr. SILYEsTER; a King's Messenger, arrived here • • this morning, inorder to embark for Spain, with im p,ortant dispatches for MalqtliS WELLESLEX and Lord WELLINGTON. FALMOUTH, SEPT422.—AI rived yesterday the. American ship Celpi, MOORE, bound to Cadiz,_in ballast; leis Majesty's ship Saloure, 18 guns, from a cruise;,, this day the Fran::is.,fm.iing packet, BERET with Mails from Jamitica, 39 days passage,.,:stle - tlas on board .14 passengers, and 230,0,00 dollars; she brings . no news the Princess' Elizat.eo, iIbI, with Mails from Lisbon, 9 days passage, left there the Prince of frales packet the British Army Were stationed at Elvas and Abrantes ; we cannot learn that she brings any particular news from Spain, Sailed yesterday, his Majesty's ship Humber, 18 guns, with a fleet of coasters, about 10 sail for the, Downs. The Cornwallis: (late packet),.ANnioN' , 'for London 3 his Majesty's 'brig - Con/ha, Lieutenant RATT, with a messenger and:dispatches fox Lisbon, but put back again' this day, PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Sailed his Majesty' s shipi ; Shields, Illustrious, and Goshawk, for Cher , I?oiArg ; his Majesty's ship flizus*dropped down to St. Helen's, for Lisbon ;. and the Frederick and En ,. detivaur,lor Sunderland. Arrived the Seven Sisters-from Charlestown. !;. !,.. DOVERj 24.-7 Arrived off here the Eliza S . M • Ann, ITH, from. Curacoa"; lett that Island on the isth - August : had - an account brought there by the Tweed, that his - Majesty's ship Lark foun dered on the 3d of August in a hurricane, off th e coast of St. Domingo,. and all hands lost, except one klack .and tA'O, white seamen, who were picked up after the gale oh some spars. Cline in the brig Emerson Iron) Quebec,eaptured last Sunday by a, French priateer, and recaptUred off Beachy Head by the Dam? gun-brig ; the Captain and all the crew of the Emerson were taken by the privateer, except one man and a boy. Passed by the Invention from Buenos Ayres. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 24.—Anived the Deptford tender with volunteers and impressed men fortlie fleet, and a Danish cartel. . . Sailed his Majesty's ships illonzo and Constao with convoy to Gottenburgh. GREENOCK; SEPT. 22.—The Jane, WYLIE, and Ardent, RITCHIE, two of the Jamaica fleet, arrived here on Wednesday, and the Pilgrim, CAMPBELL, last night, being the whole of the division of that , fleet destined for the Clyde.-01 the Leeward Island , fleet, the Eagle, BAXTER, and Harmony, TROUP, came up vn Wednesday ; the Chance, M`DOUGALL, and Edeart ora; BURNETT, arrived yesterday ; the ,, three latter passed for Port Glasgow, which in like manner make up the whole of that fleet . expeded here. LEITU, SF,PT. 21, C u Tuesclay the Quail schooner sailed f.onl Road; with a convoy for Walcheren. .Yesterday forenoon arrived in Leith Roads the tall i sloop of war, with the lOss of fore-mast and 'fore l t -mast, she having encountered -a 'violent pie tr of wind wlfile cruising off Iceland. The Sally let ter.of marque - was burnt at sea, and the crew are arrived On board - the Talbot before the accident haPiie'ned tie has made one capture, which is not yet atrived. J Yesterday' morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au , GUSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied-by—Ladies-SIDNa and Ei.Y, General FITZROY, and - Colonel.Dasaitow, rade to St. George's Chapel, and heard a Sermon, praChed by the Hon. and Rev. Dr. MARSIIAI4, aad afferwards rettirned to the Palace. Saturday the Earl r of LivEapoox. : and Mr. PERCF" VAL had au audience with his MAJESTY, ,for about an hour and afterwards returned to LOndon. The Duke of YORE, continued most part of the day with His MAJESTY. Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the fluke and Duchess of York entertained a large party of fashion &c. with a sumptuous dinner,. at their seat at Oatlands. 'Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES entertained the Duchess of BRuNscincx and a selea party with an elegant dinner, at her house at Blackheath. _ _ _ On Saturddy a Cahtnet council was held, com posed of the LQRD 'CHANCELLOR, .the Eatls of. LI VERPOOL., CAMDEN, BATHURST, CHATHAM, WEST MORLAND.; Lords MULGRAVE and LEVESON GOwER and Mr. PERCEVAL. From the constant attendances given 'by Lord CHATHAM at the cabinet meetings, it appears tO.be decided that no inoiry shall be in stituted into the late Expedition. Notwithstanding the frequent meetings of the Cabinet, no detiuinv° arrangement has yet taken place. Marquis Wsv 41;i1EY is said to have been recalled.- A letter from Halifax, dated the 30th of August: states, that the 4fricaine frigate, with Mr. Jacicsosi on board, was spoke with on that coast four days before on' her way to the United States. _By the last accounts from Weymouth, her RoYat Highness Princess 'A sr ELLA is fast recovering frcirr) late illness. . Occasionally, when the weather per , . wits, her Royal .I,iighness. goes on b.o ird the Royal Yacht, which excursions, it is supposed, have tended iiruch to the improvement of her health, .9n a late investigation of the.affairs ow the Nabob of the Carnatic, it spears, that alarming forgeries have been recently discovered among the agents of some of the nati,vePrini:ts to the amount of twenty millions of pagodas. This nefarious business is said to have been effeaed through the medium of one oC the Begums, who had, obtained possession of the Seal of the late Nabob. Tne-..judicial proceedingsi instituted on this occasion are contained in a votumi nous mass of papers received by the ships, of the last fleet.. . It was repotted when the late shiPsk. l * , 1 0 13 1 that Deputies from the Spanish Patriots had arrived at Manilla, in order to counteract: any attempts of th! C %. e ve t l i i e re i c )e e cli i e d , fr a c n ' d il i t thyetheir alts ißnC> tl a e t n t ly h e t w st e d re u was the d~ termination of the country to rejed the overtures the Batavian Government, frOni , wham a Illis,SiO S was expeEted at that place. • The subsidiary forces of Poonah and Hydi-abad, `consequence of the dispersion of the insurgents to the province of Candeit h, have withdrawn Item, that province, and 'gone into cantonments. Several of the Native Princes in the interior o f the India have at length wisely resolved to establish extensive depots of grain in their resptctive guard against the consequence of a failure of th° crops, which has in 'former instances produced the tn ,, st dreadful calamities. In consequence of the refusal of the Stiltan of So' 100 to comply ,with some late requisitions of the Dutch, to have a fortified settlement on the coast, with certain other privileges, which the former thought incompatible with the safety of 11_9 'terri tories, preparations are making at Batavia to send' out an Expedition against the above Island. From the numerous inquirieSafer Mr. CANN I G v 3 health, on Saturday and yesterday, the answers were, 1 hat he was perfettly easy, and the wound in a heal ing condition. By a violent storm on Monday night, a consider able pert of an ancient pear-tree, in the garden of ' I J. H. MAW, Esq. of Doncaster, was blown down.! This The is planted Earl (t King. d t b h y e ,) remarkable tree, noticed M in Dr. ILL ett's History of Dot: CH a AH st NA e: R , OLNE p s It.ss:te, 55, as said to have been in a late commun i ' cation to the Cork Agricultural Society, the ex.Pe l ' ce and produce of three, acres of hemp at CastlernarlYrs by which his Lordship had a clear. Profit of 1001 ' 2s. 6d. We are sorry to annonnce the death of Mr. SCOTT, 'the King's .Messenger; he was a man of the most unblemished character, and highly esteemed by every one who knew him. An eruption of Vesuvius, .on the 22d of August .last, tas been attended with a very extraordinary phenomenon. The lava, which the volcano hurled to a great height, was surmounted with an ilwil e r se globe of light, which illuminated all the country round. The annual produce of cotton at Bombay, wh l c h . was formerly estimat e d at 6000 b a l es , lately increased rinaikti,ooo. eth'he Baronets of Ireland amount to about 300 only. 1 while those of England exceed tour times-that num ber. An augmentation is shortly to take place , by raising to that Order the following families, viZ RICHARDSON, of Armaglishire.; BaowNtow, of the same County; LATOUCHE, of Carlow ;. BAGENELL, of Brgwell ; SAVAGE, Of the County Down; Four' , of the same Count} ; LAURENSON, of :Kilkenny } BUTLER, Of 'the same place; GRATTAN, CAS Shbli Queen's County; \TERMER, &C. A circumstance,' says The Shrewsburg C h nick; " happened during the race for the s °'• on Tuesday, at. our late meeting, which e xcited ,ffnAch mirth. Ie consequence of saddle of Mrs. Clarke breaking, the jockey tell ; ' OOSI the cry—Mrs. - Clarke has thrown her liiderfrom his situation! resounded from every part of the course. _ Mr. MELLISH ' S famous Horse Sanc ho died Op Wednesday morning, . t he girths of the